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Meanings of sow bug in English

Russian
мокрицы
Portuguese
bicho-de-conta
Spanish
chanchito de tierra
Catalan
porquets de sant antoni
Wikidata

Suborder of Crustacea.

Related terms
мокрицы

A terrestrial crustacean that is a member of the suborder Oniscidea.

Synonyms
Examples for "woodlouse"
Examples for "woodlouse"
1
Discovered in China, the animal looked like a woodlouse with claws.
BBC
2
As I watched, a woodlouse blundered into a translucent tripline and the web vibrated.
The Guardian
3
A well-bred woodlouse wouldn't employ you for a scavenger.
Despair's Last Journey
4
They included giant woodlouse-like creatures known as trilobites, the five-eyed Opabinia, and the spiny slug-like Wiwaxia.
BBC
5
I may be working minute by minute under the same gigantic limitations of understanding as a woodlouse.
A week in december
Usage of sow bug in English
1
The worm wriggled for a moment and became a very large sow bug.
Phantoms
2
The sow bug became a beetle.
Phantoms
3
She found a translucent fossil rock which reminded her of a Miro & he watched ants assisting a sow bug to climb the driftwood.
The new yorker
4
The group includes the terrestrial pill bugs and sow bugs, with numerous marine forms.
The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section I, J, K, ...
5
Sow bugs had no speed at all.
Surrender to the will of the night
6
Earwigs and sow bugs, that previously only were seen eating only decaying mulch, begin to attack plants.
Organic Gardener's Composting
7
Then they opened like sow bugs uncurling, took a moment to get oriented, considering him and Socia first.
Surrender to the will of the night
8
Allison pressed her hand to the cool stone and traced the coiled shapes of fossilized trilobites, underwater sow bugs stamped into the cliffs.
The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
9
In the North, earwigs and sow bugs (pill bugs) are frequently found in mulched gardens but they do not become a serious pest.
Organic Gardener's Composting